China is Key to Climate Change Talks
- Publisher:
- Southern Africa Report
- Publication Date:
- 24 November 2011
- Tags:
- Africa, South Africa, Climate, International Organizations and Africa
Success at the international climate change negotiations starting in South Africa on Monday will ultimately rest on China's diplomatic skills.
Southern Africa Report says Beijing will come to the COP17 conference in Durban having signalled its willingness to restrict its levels of industrial pollution, and a meaningful outcome will depend on the extent to which Chinese negotiators can use this to entice the industrialised West to add momentum to the painfully cautious process of slowing, and ultimately reversing, the production of destructive industrial gas pollution.
Beijing will rely heavily on the support of climate change’s major victims – Africa and the Small Island Developing States (Sids), whose members are literally sinking under the weight of climate change.
Having recently overtaken the United States as the world’s leading contributor to the problem COP17 is attempting to address, China is also the most aggressive promoter of the solution: the problem is industrial emissions polluting the atmosphere, provoking climate change; the solution is “green energy” development – wind-power, hydropower and other alternatives to fossil fuels.
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